Lady Macbeth Flashcards
1
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“Spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts”
“murd’ring ministers”
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- Supernatural
- Evil
2
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“Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?”
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- Says Macbeth is inconsistent
- Emasculating Macbeth
3
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“From this time / Such I account thy love”
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- Saying Macbeth doesn’t love her
- Using his love to manipulate him
4
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“And wakes it now, to look so green and pale”
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- Like a drunken person, regretting their words the day after
5
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“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
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- Emasculating
- Challenging Macbeth’s masculinity, knowing it will get a reaction
6
Q
“Are you a man?”
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- Challenging Macbeth’s masculinity
7
Q
“Sit” “Speak” “Go at once”
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- Taking control of the situation
- Juxtaposes weakness of husband
8
Q
How is Lady Macbeth presented as a powerful character?
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- Subverts feminine stereotypes of the Jacobean era
- Had to seize power through her husband in a patriarchal society
9
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“unsex me here”
“take my milk for gall”
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- Rejecting feminine ideas
10
Q
“will these hands ne’er be clean?”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
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- Overtaken by guilt
11
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“It is too full o’the milk of human kindness”
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- Metaphor
- Emasculating
- Liking Macbeth to a woman
12
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“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
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- Simile
- Appearance vs reality
13
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“Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour, as thou art in desire?”
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- Rhetorical question
- Emasculating
- Manipulative
14
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“a little water clears us of this deed”
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- Metaphor
- LM is remorseless
15
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“Help me, hence, ho!”
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- Appearance vs reality
- Playing the stereotype of a weak woman
